Jacqueline Saburido died of cancer recently, 20 years after suffering third-degree burns to her face and body in a car crash. (Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission)

Jacqueline Saburido Garcia, who became the face of anti-drunk driving campaigns after she was severely burned in a crash 20 years ago, has died. She was 40.

Saburido Garcia’s family told the Austin American-Statesman she was battling cancer and had moved from her home in Caracas, Venezuela, to Guatemala City for better access to medical treatments and medicine.

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José Saburido, her cousin, also said she had been undergoing facial reconstruction surgery in Miami to receive skin grafts to form new eyelids, lips and a nose.

Saburido Garcia lost much of the skin and facial features after 18-year-old Reggie Stephey, who had been drinking, slammed into the she was in on Sept. 19, 1999.

Driver Natalia Chyptchak Bennett and passenger Laura Guerrero were killed in the crash. Two other passengers were pulled from the wrecked car, but Saburido Garcia was trapped in the front seat and burned for nearly a minute before she was saved.